Lumos launches App Governance Platform to cut IT spending while maintaining security
The newly launched Lumos App Governance Platform automates access requests, enforces least privilege, speeds up user access reviews, and eliminates extra SaaS app spending. Lumos is dedicated to bridging the gap between IT, security, compliance, and finance by providing support for the most important functions for businesses in this economic climate, namely, cost management and … continue reading
WANdisco enables maximum speed for edge data transfers with new release
WANdisco released Data Activation Platform 2.0 to support faster migrations for massive datasets. The updates enable maximum speed and scale of on-premises and edge data transfers through precise control over migration throughput, cleanup, and prioritization, among other features, while supporting both the WANdisco Data Migrator and Edge to Cloud solutions. Data movements from IoT sensor … continue reading
Styra introduces new authorization policy tools
The creators and maintainers of Open Policy Agent (OPA), Styra, announced a broad policy library and toolset for infrastructure for Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS). Styra now offers hundreds of validated policies from its expanded library that are compliant with NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-190, in order to address security concerns related to the use … continue reading
PagerDuty announces Status Pages to reduce support team burden
PagerDuty Status Pages is now generally available. The new integrated feature improves customer service, reduces the burden on support teams, and helps to eliminate complexity. The feature provides visual, real-time insights into an organization’s operations and the status of incident resolution. “In 2023, customer retention will be one of the biggest factors determining whether a … continue reading
Virtana announces early support for Google Cloud in its cloud cost management tool
Virtana announced early access availability of Google Cloud support for bill analysis within Virtana Cloud Cost Management. Virtana is a unified multi-cloud management platform that helps optimize, migrate, and monitor application workloads across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. Virtana users can now integrate with Google Cloud Platform, analyze trends in their GCP bill by … continue reading
Groundcover launches new tool for creating visual network maps of services
Groundcover launched Caretta, an open-source tool that enables teams to create a visual network map of services running in their cluster. The technology uses eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter), which is used for tracing and monitoring activities within the Linux kernel. EBPF is a virtual machine that can be used to execute kernel-level programs, and … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Chocolatey
Chocolatey is a software management automation for Windows that wraps installers, executables, zips, and scripts into compiled packages. It claims to be the “sane way” to manage software on Windows. The packages go through a rigorous review process including automatic virus scanning and the community repository has a strict policy on malicious and pirated software, … continue reading
Dell announces 6K monitor and new peripherals
Dell announced its new Dell UltraSharp 32 6K Monitor with IPS Black technology (U3224KB) and two other UltraSharp monitors: the Dell UltraSharp 34 Curved USB-C Hub Monitor (U3423WE), an WQHD monitor with IPS Black technology, and Dell UltraSharp 43 4K USB-C Hub Monitor (U4323QE) that enables up to four screen partitions. The new IPS Black … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Project Wisdom
Project Wisdom was created by Red Hat in collaboration with IBM to incorporate AI into Ansible to make it easier for beginners to get started with Ansible and faster to use for experts. The goal is for users to be able to enter plain English and then get back generated automation written in Ansible syntax … continue reading
ITOps Times open source project of the week: Crossplane
Crossplane is an open-source project that provides infrastructure as code (IaC) for managing cloud native applications and infrastructure. It is designed to enable users to declaratively manage their cloud resources using a single, unified interface, rather than needing to use the individual APIs and tooling provided by different cloud providers. Crossplane aims to provide a … continue reading
Vercel launches Edge Functions
Vercel launched Edge Functions, which are JavaScript, TypeScript, or WebAssembly functions that are generally both less expensive and faster than traditional serverless functions, according to the company. Since the beta launch over the summer, Vercel added the ability to place Edge Functions into a specific region, added support for WebAssembly, and improved performance. With the … continue reading
Tigera announces Calico Security Policy Recommender improvements
Tigera introduced Calico Security Policy Recommender improvements such as security policy recommendations for namespaces, FIPS compliance for use by federal agencies, and new dashboards. The ability to recommend policies at the namespace level along with policies at the pod level enables users to add microsegmentation without worrying about application-level changes. This is useful for customers … continue reading
